Woburn, MA 8/28/07—Nova Analytics, a supplier and integrator of electrochemistry products, has announced that it acquired Global Water Instrumentation. Based outside of Sacramento, California, Global Water Instrumentation was established in 1990 and manufactures a wide variety of water testing instruments, including flow meters, pH meters, dissolved oxygen meters and conductivity meters. Chris McIntire, president and […]

In May, Affymetrix opened a manufacturing facility in Singapore. ChannelNewsAsia reports that the facility will manufacture 30% of the company’s products and has a staff of 124. Affymetrix appointed John C. Batty CFO and executive vice president in June. He previously served as senior vice president of finance and CFO of Credence Systems. In July, […]

Brijot Imaging Systems entered into a joint development plan with HRL Laboratories to enhance its BIS-WDS millimeter-wave imaging system using a module as a plug-in to enable high-volume manufacturing. In order to become profitable, Isonics restructured its Homeland Security & Defense unit to focus on the development of partnerships with prime contractors. Homeland Safety International […]

Grand Rapids, MI 8/23/07—X-Rite, a maker of color spectrophotometers and colorimeters, has agreed to acquire Pantone for $180 million. Pantone provides products for color identification, matching and reproduction, including color matching systems and standards. In 2006, Pantone recorded revenues of $42 million and adjusted EBITDA of approximately 27% of revenues. X-Rite expects the transaction to […]

In March, Enzo Biochem announced that the US Board of Patents and Interferences entered judgment in its favor for its patent application for nucleic acid signal amplification over two Princeton University patents. The Chido Companies, owner of Clean Air Labs, established a strategic partnership with Roche Diagnostics to set a DNA-based standard for mold detection […]

Esco Technologies named Mike Martin general manager of US operations in March. He was previously general manager of Lancer Sales. Esco Technologies established a subsidiary in Salisbury, UK, earlier this year. On May 4, Becton, Dickinson and Company acquired Plasso Technology, a surface-engineering company that specializes in biological coatings for consumables, for $10 million in […]

Santa Clara, CA and New York, NY 8/10/07—Symyx Technologies has agreed to acquire the infrastructure-related software applications and selected databases of MDL Information Systems from Elsevier for $123 million in cash. Elsevier will retain certain MDL content assets, including the CrossFire, Beilstein, the Patent Chemistry, Gmelin and PharmaPendium databases. MDL provides informatics framework and workflow […]

Endress+Hauser acquired a majority share in its Romanian distributor Romconseng. Endress+Hauser’s Conductam industrial liquid analysis business named Dr. Manfred Jagiella, previously head of Sensors for Balluff, managing director. Endress+Hauser’s 2006 sales increased 11.3% to €985.2 million ($1.2 billion) (see IBO 7/15/07). Asian Pacific sales rose 20%, European sales grew 10.4%, North and South American sales […]

Carestream Health, consisting of Kodak’s former Health Group business (see IBO 1/15/07), officially began operating as an independent company in May. 454 Life Sciences and the Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre are collaborating on the characterization of tropical organisms and diseases. Axela Biosensors entered into a licensing and supply agreement for BioCheck’s reagents for use as […]